{"video_id":"lJEpHTkdTtc","title":"NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV - Best in class set top box?","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2016-05-06T14:53:29Z","duration_s":492,"segments":[{"start_s":0.359,"end_s":5.52,"text":"NVIDIA has quite the lineup of Shield products now they have the shield","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.24,"end_s":10.24,"text":"portable which is kind of the all-encompassing handheld version which","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":7.48,"end_s":14.799,"text":"you can see lonus review here or you can see me making a ghetto version of it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.679,"end_s":19.6,"text":"here they have the Shield tablet which you can see lonus review up here or","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.92,"end_s":24.64,"text":"finally they have the shield console which you can see by doing nothing if","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":23.08,"end_s":31.45,"text":"you want to see a video on 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going to our Amazon affiliate link and using that link to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":459.08,"end_s":464.759,"text":"buy even more things on Amazon now you can also go to the community forum and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":463.16,"end_s":468.52,"text":"become a contributor there that helps us out directly and you're probably","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":466.639,"end_s":472.879,"text":"wondering what to watch next so click that little button in the top right hand","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":470.319,"end_s":478.08,"text":"corner to check out a video which is the conclusion of scrapyard Wars where I","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":475.28,"end_s":481.44,"text":"somehow be despite so","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"NVIDIA has quite the lineup of Shield products now they have the shield portable which is kind of the all-encompassing handheld version which you can see lonus review here or you can see me making a ghetto version of it here they have the Shield tablet which you can see lonus review up here or finally they have the shield console which you can see by doing nothing if you want to see a video on the Zotac hybrid cooled Arctic Storm gently caress the like button down below Corsair delivers real Mech or nothing with the new strafe mechanical keyboard featuring genuine german-made Cherry MX switches click now to learn more The Shield Android TV console rocks the beast mode NVIDIA Tegra X1 featuring an 8 core CPU with four cortex a57 cores and four cortex a53 cores alongside a 256 core Maxwell GPU and 3 GB of gddr4 RAM that's computationally two times as powerful as an Xbox 360 and six times the RAM at considerably less power draw meaning it's the first device to run Android TV in 4k and you can play stuff like Crisis 3 Borderlands the Pre-Sequel Telltale Games Wolf Among Us and Game of Thrones halflife 2 War Thunder which has freaking crossplatform support doom 3 and many more natively just by downloading them from the store and while that's awesome awesome and it plays all these things impressively I didn't see things like Witcher 3 or even Hearthstone on there for that matter so what are your other options well right off the bat you have game stream this being a PC Centric Channel I suspect that most of you will be able to start game stream almost immediately if you have an NVIDIA GPU what exactly is game stream well Linus should have a Techquickie episode on that coming soon so stay tuned for that but for now basically you can use the power of your NVIDIA GPU equipped computer to do all the heavy lifting that comes with running a game and use another device like the shield console to recapture that output data from the computer receive controller inputs from you and display out to a screen this allows you to play pretty much whatever the hell PC game you want as long as your computer can play it but requires the use of your computer and another device like the shield console and you must have a strong Network link between them if you don't want to use your other computer or maybe don't have another computer that can support this you have the grid option which is essentially where NVIDIA uses their Cloud setup to act as your computer and honestly it works pretty great but you need to have a very good connection to support it and it will Chomp through your bandwidth limit if you have one a connection speed of 5 to 15 megabits per second will get you 720p 30 FPS and a connection speed of 15 and above will get you 1080p 60 FPS now game stream is free if you have the hardware for it and the currently still in beta grid option is a paid service after July 31st 2015 so keep that in mind as of right now they have about 45 Games available which while it may sound like a lot is a little lacking in actuality in the future they will be an option of the grid store where you can buy new games right as they come out but we're still waiting to see the cost structure Behind these things the io on the back of the unit is a Micro SD card slot micro USB 2 USB 3.0 ports an Ethernet Jack HDMI and power speaking of which you can use those ports to expand your storage with micro SD cards or external hard drives and you will probably want to do this unless you get the 500 GB model as the 16 GB model fills up quite quickly now if you're someone who cares about Aesthetics damn you're in good hands this thing looks really nice the aggressively angled panels of mixed black plastic and brushed aluminum looks amazing pretty much wherever you put it and the subtle green LED lighting looks perfect in my opinion but can be controlled in the software just in case it isn't really your thing and it doesn't stop there if you spring for the additional stand you get treated to pretty much the same with really sharp looking brushed aluminum all around it which while it makes me a little paranoid about fingerprints it's mostly okay as it will pretty much just sit there and look nice and you don't really need to do much with it on the bottom there's one of the stickiest rubbery surfaces I've ever dealt with which means if you kind of bump bump into it or accidentally try to put something in the way it's not really going to move which is kind of nice the remote is a thing of beauty as well but to be honest it just plain scares the out of me NVIDIA clearly loves brushed aluminum and like that's cool that's cool I'm happy you guys want to put quality materials onto your products and I hate hammering on you for it but God I can't even use the thing I get sweaty hands and the brush aluminum that's on the back and front of this product would just look like garbage after while of me using it so I've resorted to using the foam packaging that it comes in right out of the box if you want to see review of the controller that comes with it click here to see Linus cover it in The Shield tablet review that annotation should be timestamped but we're not even necessarily 100% sure if that even works so if it isn't just jump to 2 minutes and 45 seconds in conclusion this thing's sick the controller alone is badass and cost about $60 tack on another 140 and you get a 4K capable Chromecast essentially without those overheating issues and stuff that people have been having with them and a surprisingly extremely capable gaming machine which has the ability to tap into the power of your gaming rig or the NVIDIA grid which is very awesome should you rush out and buy one obviously only if it would benefit your setup by adding this into the ecosystem but I do think that this thing is seriously cool and if you have the budget for it it could be a great addition now I'm always saying that mass drop you know the site where you you go and they've got like stuff and if a lot of people agree to buy it you know the community is like yeah we want to buy one of those and M drop's like okay we'll try and find one and then if a bunch of other people are like hey I well I want to buy it too the price goes down that's how the whole thing works I'm always saying they have a wide variety of things available lots of keyboards lots of you know monitors even things like knives well today something that we've never talked about before the feature dropped today is an AE ap10 HD drone it features a high voltage battery it actually has a maximum flight time of somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 minutes it reaches a Max altitude of 500 M although you're going to want to check your local regulations in case you that's too high for regulations and can capture both 16 megapixel Stills as well as 1080p High defition video okay lonus that's great there's a lot of drones that do that what's special about this one well the fact that it's available for $599.99 at its lowest drop so you guys are going to want to head over to draw upups SL Linus Tech tips and get all the Deets about this drop and many more join up at Mass drop and you'll start spending money I know that doesn't necessarily sound like a solid pitch for you guys the viewer but it's good because you actually save money on the like cool gadgetry and neat stuff that they've got over there so check it out shop around a bit see if you find something I know that I usually do thanks for watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but if it was awesome get subscribed hit that like button again or even consider supporting us directly by buying a shirt apparently or going to our Amazon affiliate link and using that link to buy even more things on Amazon now you can also go to the community forum and become a contributor there that helps us out directly and you're probably wondering what to watch next so click that little button in the top right hand corner to check out a video which is the conclusion of scrapyard Wars where I somehow be despite so"}